? was the state politics first? i suppose so, but what was his relationship with johnson, and do you remember any exchanges he had person to person with johnson about the war, about the vietnam war? >> he was the first strauss to get in politics, and he mainly got in through john connely who would become governor of texas, and john, in 1959, ran into bob on the street in dallas. he was a lawyer in f. worth at the time, and bob was a lawyer the the time. i'm getting a group of fellows together to go to washington to talk about the johnson's presidential nomination. do you want to come along? that was sort of, you know, the beginning of the end. he went along and helped support the johnson nomination effort in 1960, which we know failed. kennedy won that year, but after that, because conley was a protege, strauss was one step closer. in the day in dallas when kennedy was assassinated, he was a host of the lunch chon, you know, downtown, and, you know, he was very involved in all of that. one thing, and i wrote it in the book that it's right for people to doubt my objectivity. i would definitely dou
